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Ahmed Akhter

Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Scientists develop high-precision global cultivated land distribution mapping data (Baidu.com)

September 17, 2020


Baidu.com (China) published an article on the Smart Agriculture Innovation Team of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Agricultural Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences cooperated with IFPRI, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and other units for 3 years. They developed and shared a new phase of global high-precision cultivated land distribution mapping data products, providing new ideas and new methods for global-scale agricultural remote sensing mapping and related research.

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